The Retirement Thread

[oldwheels]

Lovely day out yesterday. Best cycling day for some time but unfortunately I was in car and ferry to get a CT scan in Oban.
It was like getting day release from prison to see different places. Lots of shopping I cannot get locally but not by me as the family would not let me near a supermarket.
A couple of hours sitting in the sun in my son’s garden watching roe deer while they did the shopping. If you look about the centre of the picture you can see something brown. The cat thought about having a go at it but decided better not.

 

[Mo1959]

Think I will toddle round to the Co-op for some shopping. Fridge is nearly bare.

Bit of cloud coming over now. I think I got the best of the day going out early.

 

[pawl]

I've got to admit it's wifey that buys it. I'll use any old soap, reminds me when we were kids it was carbolic soap for washing everything. Tin bath in front of the fire luxury!

You were lucky.Before mum could pop me in the bath the coal had to be removed from it.

 

[classic33]

Good morning, I was awake at some God forsaken hour so you can all rest assured my world is returning to some sort of normality! Especially for @Tenkaykev the Chipping forecast is light grey cloud with some blue sky, still and 11C. Almost ideal cycling weather.

So Chipping? Well it's just a silly old fart's story but makes us smile every time. Chipping is a very nice village in the Ribble Valley. It has a cafe, the Cobbled Corner, and a recently opened farm shop which also does food. The cafe is frequented by many cyclists, some I know well and one you may be familiar with.

A couple of years ago the pensioners group was ambling round the Ribble Valley, an area we know like the back of our hand,* only to discover some uncertainty about our location!! In other words lost! After some chat one of our number pipes up "Follow me, all roads lead to Chipping." Over an hour later we finally arrived in Chipping for coffee. Since then word has spread through the club and whenever there is doubt about which way to go, no matter where in we are in Lancashire, up will go the shout "All roads lead to Chipping."

There's a bit of this story that's based in fact. In the Ribble Valley we have many small lanes and it's not uncommon for them to be be signposted to Chipping. They're spread for miles around!!

At 9.00 I'm meeting a friend to ride. Guess where we are going!

*Where's your Gamut Point then?

 

[numbnuts]

You were lucky.Before mum could pop me in the bath the coal had to be removed from it.

A bath …..luxury we were thrown naked out in the rain with a bar of soap

 

[classic33]

A bath …..luxury we were thrown naked out in the rain with a bar of soap

Shawshank Style?

 

[Dave7]

You were lucky.Before mum could pop me in the bath the coal had to be removed from it.

Coal!!! You could afford coal? Me and my Bro used to take an old pram to fill up with coke.
You must have been posh.

 

[Dave7]

A bath …..luxury we were thrown naked out in the rain with a bar of soap

And what if it was a very dry spell ?

 

[classic33]

And what if it was a very dry spell ?

We'd a river nearby.

 

[numbnuts]

And what if it was a very dry spell ?

River Itchen at the bottom of the garden, but that was only for the rich to fish in.....like it still is today

 

[numbnuts]

I've been shopping

 

[Drago]

I've just pre-ordered a signed copy of the new Rick Wakeman CD, The Red Planet. If the sneaky preview clips on Pooptube are anything to go by it's going to be a belter.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have returned from a bimble. I went mainly to test out my new tyre. There were some dark clouds in the sky but the rain held off thank god.

 

[pawl]

Coal!!! You could afford coal? Me and my Bro used to take an old pram to fill up with coke.
You must have been posh.

Not at all .The gasworks in Loughborough was regular trip for me.I used to take my sister’s bike down to the gasworks Fill a sack with coke wedge it in the frame and push the bike back home.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Took the bike 5 miles up the road to one of the reservoirs this morning, locked it to a sign then went for a wander. Saw another cuckoo, again being pursued by a meadow pipit, the cuckoo was very vocal too, also good views of blackcap, whitethroat, common sandpiper and little grebe, and lots of all the usual willow warblers wrens and chaffinches etc. Came across quite a few flowering common spotted orchid, it’s the only orchid I know.